In, The Coal Trap: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution, Jamie Van Nostrand, the Charles M. Love, Jr. Endowed Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law and Director of its Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, tells the story of why West Virginia now faces overwhelming obstacles to competing in the economic marketplace of the twenty-first century.
The book serves as a warning of how a fair energy transition can be derailed by political failure. Van Nostrand has forty years’ experience in a variety of roles in the energy industry, including positions as a regulator, energy lawyer, and director of a New York-based environmental nongovernmental organization.
